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Patrick Schembri

patrick.schembri [at]uvsq.fr

Patrick Schembri is currently an Associate Professor in Economics at Versailles University. He is a member of the Observatoire de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, (OVSQ), which actively participates in the fields of climate change and sustainable development at national, European and international levels and contributes to global environmental governance through the climate research undertaken by the laboratories in the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute and their participation in the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Dr Schembri is a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cultures Environments Arctic Representations Climate (CEARC), which is one of the research laboratories of the Observatoire de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines.

His academic qualifications are a MA in Economics and a Post Graduate Diploma in environmental economics from the Panthéon - Sorbonne University (Paris, France), in which he was awarded a PhD in 1997 on “Schumpeterian” economic growth models, technological innovation and environmental sustainability. For his doctoral dissertation, he benefited from a research grant of Brown University (Providence, MA, USA) in 1994. In 1998, Dr Schembri has been a Postdoctoral fellow within the CRITINC European Research Project, Making sustainability operational : CRITIcal Natural Capital and the implications of a strong sustainability criterion, funded by the DG XII of the European Commission and coordinated by the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment, Keele University, U.K.

His research mainly focuses on the links between economic growth - technological change – natural environment, the transition process to the so-called green growth regime and the development paths in the so-called emerging countries. It covers diverse academic fields: macrodynamics and international economics, natural resources and environmental economics, the economics of climate change and ecological economics, theoretical and applied modeling. He published several articles on environmental policy, natural capital assessment, indicators for sustainable development. He also contributed in building the M3ED model, a multi-sectoral dynamic model mainly used for integrated energy-economy-environment assessment and the calculation of ecologically adjusted economic aggregates. These different fields of research led him to take part in several national and European research programmes concerning the French agriculture and water quality, greenhouse gas abatement through fiscal policy in the European Union, the economic and social aspects of environmental issues such as consumers lifestyles and pollutant emissions, and the application of non monetary procedures of economic valuation for managing a sustainable development.

A training seminar for the executives of the CEFEB on the following topics: Pauvreté, croissance et inégalités: une lecture critique au regard de la littérature sur les strategies de croissance pro-pauvres, 30 september 2004. [Poverty, growth and inegalities: a critical reading with regards to the recent literature on pro-poor growth strategies].

Training for adminsitration executive officers of de Sub saharan Africa:

Participation as an expert-instructor to the 4th scientific days within the framework of the MOGED programme, (maîtrise des outils de gestion de l’environnement pour le développement durable), organised by the Institut de la francophonie pour le développement durable in Antananarivo (Madagascar), 11-16 december 2007. During these days, training courses for executives and professionals working in IFDD’s fields of expertise had been proposed: the methods of valuation of the natural assets: the method of the travel costs, the contingent valuation method, the econometric modeling and an initiation into the numerical simulation with the systems dynamics approach.

2012 Green growth and the critical issue of the genuine savings path for an capital-short economy: the case of emerging countries, International Conference on Ecological Economics and Rio+20: contributions and challenges for a green economy, The International Society for Ecological Economics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 16-19 june, with G. Bailly & K. Radja.

2009 Climate change and the social cost of carbon for the French economy: the Ile de France case, International conference on The international dimension of climate policies, organised by the National Centre of Competence in Research Climate (NCCR), Bern university, Bern, Switzerland, 21-23 january, with E. Zorzi & K. Radja.